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This ilrm, having a thorough knowledge of the Pen sion Business, and being familiar 'with the practice in all the Departments of Government, believe that they can afford greater facilities to Pension, Bounty, and other Claimants, for the prompt and successful accom plishment of business entrusted to them, than any ether dm in Washington. They desire to secure each an amount of this business as will enable them to execute the business for each claimant very cheaply, and on the basis of their pay contingent upon their success in each case. Poe this purpose they will secure the eerTieen of Law RIMS in each prominent locality throughout the Mates where such business may be had, furnish such with all the necessary blank forms of application and evidence, requisite printed pamphlet instructions, and circulars for distribution in their vicinity, with asso ciates names inserted, and upon the due execution of the papers and transmission of the Name to them by their lead associates, they will promptly perform the business here. 117- Their charges will be ten dollars for officers and fire dollars for privates, for each Penaion or Bounty and Sack Pay obtained, and ten per cent. on amount of Claims for Military Supplies or Claims for Indemnity. irr Soldiers enlisted since the let of March, 1861, in any kind of service, Military or Naval, who are disabled by disease or wounds, are entitled to Pensions. AU soldiers who serve for two years, or during the war, should it sooner close, will be entitled to $lOO Bounty. 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DRUMS, VMS, PLIITIS, ACCORDIONS, eta. at the lowest OITP PRIORS, at W. KNOOHI'B MORO STORM, • No. 93 Mawr Stamar. PRO CL AM A T 10 N.—Whereas, the Honorable7oam7. Pgaasoir, President of the Court or Common Pleas in the Twelfth Judidal 'District, con sisting of the counties of Lebanon and Dauphin, and the Hon. BAWD!. Lamm and Hon. Moen R. Tema, Also. ciate Judges in Dauphin county, having issued their pre cept, bearing date the 24th day of February, 1868, to me directed, for holdings Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace at Harrisburg, for the county of Dauphin, and to com mence on th e f oso rk, Monday o f April DaDt, being the 27111 day of April, 1868, and to continue two weeks. Notice is therefore hereby given to the Coroner, Jus tices of the Waco, Aldermen, and Constables of the said county of Dauphin, that they be then and there in their proper persons, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, with their racards, inquisitions, ersiiiinations, andtheir own remembrance'', to do those things which to their aloe appertains to be done and those who are bound in I.OOOgMEDZIODO to prosecute melon the prisoners that are or shall be in the Jail of Dauphin. county, be then and there to prosecute against them as shall be just. Given under my hand, at Harrisburg, the 24th dy of April, in the year of our Lord, 1863, and in the eig ty- Seventh year of the independence of the United States. J. D. BOAS, Sheriff. UAW, PRIED BEEF, BOLOGNA OLVOMAIS, T9NGH7llO,dca., for.sale low, by WK. DOCK, li., k 4 :11 grid Mou. SATURDAY /ORRIN% APRIL 25. IE4, SPEECH OF WILLIAM A. STOKES, OF WESTMORELAND, Before the Allegheny County Democratic Club, Pittsburg, April 14, 1863. I salute you, fellow citizens, with fraternal emotion, for we are bound together as members of the great Democratic family by ties of po• litical affection, and no man, who loves his country, can behold the scene now and here presented—this vast assemblage of the indomi table and unterrified, with resolutions of reps.- ration and revenge for the wrongs done to our common mother, the Republic, stamped firmly on your faces—the fire of patriotism gleaming from your eyes—strong arms ready for any emergency which may arise or any duty to which your country may call you, whether to defend the Union against the traitors of the south, or the Constitution against the tyrants of the North—no man can behold such a scene as this and not feel re-inspired in devotion, re assured in hope. For myself, let me confess, that while I rejoice in this evidence of coming good, I am appalled by the task before me. He who, in times like these, ventures to address the people on those topics of overwhelming importance which now agitate the nation— which indeed everywhere convulse society— should not be, nay, cannot be, unmindful of the responsibility he assumes. Of course Ido not allude to the peril of being kidnapped by military power and incarcerated in Federal dungeons—a fate neither to be sought nor avoided—not imminent now, because already the tortures wantonly inflicted by the myrmi dons of power have caused them to recoil aghast from their hellish work, have re-invigorated the patriotism of the people, and aroused the land from the lethargy of false security. It is the Divine decree that salvation shall be by suffering. It is in the fire of affliction that the soul is purged and purified. The dark hours of disappointment and defeat chasten the mind for the reception of truth. The courage, of vir tue rises under the pressure of misfortune.— The pure ore is produced from the hottest fur nace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. These are the conso lations of the martyrs of liberty. No, fellow-citizens, the responsibility to which I allude lies in the obligation to con demn the errors of friends and to extend chaHt. to enemies, to speak frankly and fairly, not r a partisan advocate, but as an independent fro man--nothing extenuate nor set down auglAn malice—to do impartial Justice between.on tending parties, to reason calmly in orir to convinee, and even to court mildness the sake of peacC. I know not whethert ca n conform to my own rule, for I conffil that sometimes my passions are aroused, I be hold our wronged and ravaged cp un fy—the\t ruin impending over her—the pnnikaberedt cold and bloody corpses of her slaughtered children—an enormous public debt---burthens of taxation too ,grievous to be borne—the no :lrturarnonor - surtreu—tne MUM= Or liberty sharpening their daggers for the fatal stab. The country groans under the vilest wrongs which tyranny, in its worst frenzy, can inflict. Desolation and destruction have become so fa miliar, by perpetual repetition, that they no longer strike the soul with horror. The ago nizing accents of despair are often heard above the clash of arms, and the loud denunciations of hostile parties, convulsed, maddened, by in testine strife. Surely Pennsylvania should not suffer herself to be dragged into this vortex of most perilous confusion. Now, as in past times, she should stand constant to her con servative character—firm as her awn moun tains—unmoved by the tempest that howls around her—resolved to defend the cause of constitutional freedom and national union, against all assaults, from every quarter. Our State occupies a peculiar position, andjf we ever consent to dissolution of the Unlffn, of inevitable and extreme peril. The States north and east of us are protected by her geo graphical interposition between them and the South, while the Ohio river forms a natural boundary for the Western States, easily defen ded. But the line between Virginia and Penn sylvania is artificial and imaginary. Recog nize the Southern Confederacy to-morrow, and the next day will begin a border war, of which you, Pennsylvanians, must bear the brunt. Virginia slaves will seek refuge on our soil— they will be pursued and recaptured—our peo ple will resist this outrage on the rights of a government, foreign to and independent of the Confederacy—conflicts will ensue, daily more numerous and extensive—the militia will be called out on both sides—peace elsewhere will be at the price of r t erpetual War for Pennsyl vania. Look to your tariff too. I waive the disputed question of protection; but for reve nue, some sort of duty upon imports is abso lutely necessary. Lay direct taxes to pay the interest of the public debt, and they cannot and will not be collected. Acknowledge the Confederacy, and the tariff laws are, in effect, repealed, and the mercantile marine is de stroyed. Smuggling cannot be prevented along a line of thousands of miles. Ships will not enter the harbors . of New York, Philadelphia and Boston, to pay enormous duties on their cargoes, when they can enter those of Norfolk, Charleston and New Orleans, without any such exaction. So, too, in regard to the Missieein-, pi, in which western Pennsylvania, and all who live between the Alleghenies and the Rocky Mountains, have a peculiar and vital interest. Surrender the Mississippi, and you, in effect, dam up all the streams which find their way to the Gulf of Mexico through the channel of that river. Make what treaties you please, they cannot prevent half a dozen men with one cannon, from arresting, at their pleasure, any vessel which may attempt to navigate a stream running more than a thousand miles, through territory inhabited by an exasperated and Im pulsive people. These streams, hundreds in number, and hundreds of thousands of miles in aggregate length, the •great natural high ways of a vast empire, are the gifts of God for the promotion of human intercourse, of civili zation, of unity—man dare not surrender them—human hands have no right to rupture the beneficent bonds by which Providence has bound together all the people of the valley of the Mississippi. In the face of theses erious considerations, I ask you, Pennsylvanians, whether you can ever consent to separation from your sister States ; and I beg also to ask you another question, more thought of than talked of, in such event, where are we to go to ? Pennsylva nia, in coming into the Federal Union, agreed to a government which included all the States, both North and South. The withdrawal of either, seems to be the destruction of the Union for every State which formed part of it; for the contract of the Constitution embraces the whole. If the Almighty should, for our mani fold sins, curse us with this calamity, it will be for the people of Pennsylvania to determine what shall be their new position. *They have the right to judge for themselves, and they have the pa , to defend themselves. Here nature has lilted, with generous profusion, her riehesifts, concentrating, in high degree, every roe of individual prosperity and na tional ' lth. Here is an Empire, complete within elf, self-sustaining, independent; a count ually adapted for agriculture, man ufact and commerce, abounding in min eral t res ; a climate neither warm enough tci en e, nor so, cold as to prevent all culti- No ted to a temperate region ; command ig al the communications of the Atlantic ed t Mississippi, inhabited by patriotic, ilus s, and virtuous citizens. The great Jar! such a people spontaneously rejects bid f the surrender of the blood-bought Pita of liberty and Union which their Ozer equeathed to- them, and which they t bo d by the most sacred duty to transmit imp ed to posterity. 'eUf-citizens, I deny the right of secession • de* that the Constitution of the United ites eserves the right to each State to with us, fi m the Union at any time, on its own ie w tion. On the contrary, I hold that the lera#3l-overninent, though of limited powers, t ;leg mate government for the purposes of .area ion, perfect in all its parts, Executive, isla Ivo and Judicial, self-sustaining, bade . lent—making, construing and executing its laws, by virtue of its own inherent force. eason revolts from the idea of political ,ide—of a contract to bind nobody—of an 3ement for disagreenient—of a union for , onion. this question was anticipated and deter ed by the unanimous action of the Con don that framed the Constitution, General 3hington, the President of that body, hay by their authority declared in 'his official or to Congress submitting the Constitution: is obviously impracticable in the Federal ernment of these States to secure all rights independent sovereignty to eaoh and yet Fre e for the interest and safety of all. Indi eels entering into society must give up a : lion of liberty to preserve the rest. * * s at all times difficult to draw with precision line .between those rights that must be sue ! dered and those which must _be reserved. * * In all our deliberations upon this I jeet t we kept steadily in our view that which ..)ears to us the . greatest interest to every ,e American, the consolidation of our Union, which is involved our prosperity, felicity, :ety, and perhaps, our national existence." ut the question now presented by the atti le of the secedinrStates is one not subject the tests of the technical lawyer, or the re le. Itil of abstract philosophical speculation, or *A of historical authority. 1 Wibtand in a momentous time, in the pre !senebf appalling Peers. Are we equal to the itne and its duties—can we comprehend thes(faots and their consequences ? If we are not-If we cannot—the death-knell of the Re pubic is already rung—the great experiment has *iled—the demonstration is complete that I mans incapable of self-government--despo- • tieurhas forever triumphed over liberty. Denying the doctrine of secession, I admit the right of revolution. It is a right reserved by every people in every government ; without It, tyranny would be eternal. Its exercise is the sole judgment of those who assert it. lis vindication is in the result of war. But it. lir ouiy - to - Du irsai to • - tlits - i nn - as Mr. Jefferson well said, when tyranny omen overwhelming, not for light and tran t causes, and only when all other means of ess have failed. It is the desperate and ilf e t y remedy for a c cumulated, intolerable and h less wrongs. Its declaration of war is in tlithunder tones of a people united by the ex tepl pressure of a crushing oppression, and need to resistance by the extremity of a comon suffering. is not on this ground, however, that the Cdtederaoy rests its case, though in fact both dal, by appealing to organized military force, soi placed themselves, substantially, in this attade—revolution on the one side and coer cloion the other. 4d now, my friends, we come to the all im penult question, what is to be done ? I pass byte causes which led to the conflict. Nei th it side is responsible for the extremes of m c e and madness into which unreasoning fa tics on both sides often went, except so far as eynay have adopted the cruel counsels of thee) infatuated and furious wretches, of whom m il e antagonistic types are to be found in SU er and Yancey. I repeat the question, what i o be done ? Recolnition and just application of the fa miliar eaxiin in " Union there is strength," will aniwer 'this question. The South is now sabstai ally united, the North divided. It fi was n so in the beginning of the present con test/ lien loyalty prevailed in the hearts of the a ajority of the people of - nearly all the So hero States, and' the base leaders of the eviesion movement were compelled to resort to t 1 ce and fraud, in violation of the wishes of ir e people, to take them out of the Union, to • whipe illg, hallowed by a thousand sacred me moles, they were ready to rush with rapture, at the wheat practicable moment; while in the; No-th, party was forgotten in the unani mous eagerness of all men to sustain the gov ernmeit in, what were asserted and believed to be,its legitimate objects. No need then for militia draft or ruthless conscription. The ranfs of volunteer regiments were crowded, Mile with Democrats and Republicans, whose patty predelictions were forgotten in all sh aming patriotism—he only was unhappy who wet excluded from the army—the government win embarrassed by the multitudes who sought to serve in the field. All this is changed, and whP ? Because the administration has aban doted its original position, because the Execu tive and Congress have proved recreant to the pritciples which they professed, because the objOts of the war have utterly changed. When MriLinceln was inaugurated President he de clared, under the solemn sanction of the consti tutbnal oath of office which he had just taken, thi. he had no design, desire or-power to in terfere with slavery, or to invade, in any man ner, the rights of States or people. Soon afterwards appeared Mr. Seward's diplomatic cirAular, strengthening and expanding the Prident's declaration. A few months later C0 1 7 ,g ress, by nearly unanimous resolution, fol io ed in the same course, and solemnly an nounced that the object of the war was only to seem the supremacy, everywhere, of the Constitution and the laws. Such being the avowed and legitimate purposes of the govern ment, it received the united support of all the people of all the loyal States, and a vast and powerful body in the South. This platform thus erected by Republicans vitte one on which Democrats, both North and South, could stand and did stand, because it was the platform of the Constitution. So soon as the administration had succeeded, by these false pretexts, in seducing into the ranks of the army several hundred thousand Demo crats, and felt themselves strong enough to defy the source of all power, they commenced a systematic course of treason and perjury by repeated and avowed violations of the Consti tution and of their oaths to support, uphold and defend it. In this horrid exigency the duty of the Democracy was plain, and was performed. The liberty of the citizen is the life of the State. They set themselves to vindicate the violated Constitution. They accepted the gage of battle thrown down by its enemies, the Fed eral administration. This war of rulers against people, of servants against masters, is now being waged with a reckless and savage fe rocity which violates law, defies justice, denies truth, and tramples upon right. The govern ment, thus far, has succeeded only in dividing the North and uniting the South, in slaughter ing hecatombs of victims, in creating an enor mous national debt, in imposing burthens of taxation too grievous to be borne, in gorging the maws of rapacious plunderers, and in ma king the very name of Republic a by word and disgrace throughout the world. Proof of these facts is needless, inasmuch as they are often admitted. No candid and intelligent Republi can will deny that Mr. Seward's proclamation of the irrepressible conflict, eagerly adopted by the mass of his party, alienated one portion of the Union from the other, by organizing vast political body, based on a geographical line, hostile to one half of the Union, and pledged to the destruction of their State insti tutions—that to give effect to this pledge, they placed their wicked and visionary scheme above the Constitution and the Union, and refused all propositions of adjustment and pacification offered and urged by patriots, North and South. Progressing to the ?radical application of these theories, they beseiged the President, until, worn out by ceaseless importunity, he surrendered principles which he had publicly" professed ; abdicating his constitutional power to become the passive instrument of a vast Abolition society. The result was soon found in the Abolition proclamation, in the suspension of the habeas corpus, in arrests without accu sation, proof, hearing or warrant, in confisca tion of property without notice or trial, in the conscription, which laid every State and every citizen prostrate at the feet of a single man. The excuse for all this is an alleged neces sity, judged of only by those who make the plea. The arraigned criminals pretend to jus tify themselves by their own judgments, defy. ing the impartial verdict of the people now, and the historic sentence of condemnation in the future. Let me address you, my Republican friends, who have honored us by your presence to-night, and in whom we recognize intelli gence, integrity and patriotism—do yon not tolerate all these excesses because you think that exigency of national peril gives the go vernment a right to disregard the organic law ? Now let me appeal to your candor. Does not the history of all usurpation prove that it is in times oT public peril that the government, re gardless of law, absorbs all the power of the nation, giving, as justification for their crimes, this very peril. From Near to Napoleon thls has been the usurper's argument. A facile man, like Mr. Lincoln, yielding to bad advice, may unintentionally produce monstrous disas ter, the irreparable ruin of his country, as well as a successful soldier, whose genius enables him to see beforehand the fatal consequences of his conduct. Imbecility is no excuse for guilt. Liberty consists in the equality of all citizens before the law. The President is as subject to law as any other citizen. How can we wage a war for the re-establishment of the ascendency of the Constitution in every State, if the government is systematically violating it ? The Constitution le our right, our property —purchased by the blood of our forefathers. If-Mr.. -Lincoln pohnonef line alit. even for an hour, he may be impeached, tried and con victed. Let Felix tremble. He will yet find that justice does not sleep forever. How monstrous is the miserable pretext of defending the Con stitution by , destroying it ! The general government is not an original sovereignty, but the creature of the Constitu tion by which the people of the States dele gated to it a portion of the perfect political power which they possessed. That instrument, therefore, is a grant, and necessarily limited by its terms. Thitt, which is therein found, and that alone, co stitutes the power which the Federal Government may lawfully exercise.— That which is not therein found is reserved to the grantors. One of its own clauses expressly declares, that all the powers not therein grant ed, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The best commentary on the Constitution is the Constitution itself. It fol lows, therefore, inevitably, that inasmuch as in the carefully elaborated declaration of the powers of the President, there is no authority for any of the acts to which I have referred,_ but, on the contrary, by an express prohibi tion, in that clause of the Constitution which provides that all the powers not therein grant ed, are reserved to the States or people, all those acts are null and void. They are not the legitimate acts of the President of the Uni ted States, but the usurpations of Abraham Lincoln and his advisers. Even unconstitu tional acts, however, which have the form of law, should not be resisted by force, but by appeal to judicial tribunals, or by the exercise, in extreme cases, of the personal right of self defence. Besides ' this plea of necessity rests wholly on the fact that we are at war. During the war with England, all New England was an organized conspiracy against the government. Their Puritan pulpits were converted into po litical batteries, from which the Republic was attacked ; they held conventions in which they declared the war to be cruel, bloody and un just; they obstructed naval and military oper ations ; they gave aid and comfort to the enemy. In the face of all this, not a single arbitrary arrest was made. Then no man dreamed that the Constitution was binding only in times of peace. That bold fallacy was invented by the sons of the English sympathizers of 1812. Why, if the Constitution is suspended during the war, so also is the President, Congress, and the Courts, for they all live, move, and have their being, only by and under the Con stitution. During the war with England, dames Madi son, justly called "the father of the Constitu tion," was President. I have shown that his conduct was the reverse of that now pursued. Let me call your attention .to the language which he used in the resolutions written by him, and adopted by the Legislature of Vir ginia ; "This Assembly doth explicitly and peremp torily declare, That it views the powers of the Federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the States are parties, as limited by .the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact." So also the author of the Declaration of Independence said ; " Whensoever the general government as sumes undelegated powers, its acts are unau thorative, void, and of no force•; that to this compact eac h State acceded as "a State, and is an integral party; that this. government, cre ated by , this compact, was not made the exclu sive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to. itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution. the measure .of its powers; but, that as in all other oases of compact, among parties have no common judge, each party has an equal .right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." The adminiktration, discarding the doctrines of our fathers, and diaregardingithe Constitu tion, seek to dazzle our eyes and our judg- PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, SUNDAYS ZZCIIPTED, BY 0. 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Kings, the noblest images of Divinity, are never greater than when they submit all their greatneas to justice, and unite to the title of masters of the world, that of slaves of the law." Undoubtedly, despotism is mare splendid than Democracy; but the people prefer happiness to glory, free dom to oppression, and the rights of man to the will of tyrants. Therefore, it is that at the polls, in their public meetings, in their newspapers and in social conversation, they defend themselves by denouncing the errors of the administration, and this is falsely called opposing the government_ The g overnment— what is the government ? It is constitutional, political organization, of which we are the defenders. It is not the administration nor the men who compose it. Nay. to the extent to which the administration violates the Con stitution, which creates the government, it is the enemy of the government. Mr. Seward well said in his ;etter last November to Mr. Adams, our Minister to England : "In this country, especially, it is a habit not only entirely consistent with the constitution, but even essential to its stability, to regard the administration at any time existing as distinct and separate from the government itself, and to canvass the proceedings of the one without a thought of disloyalty to the other." The source of all our perils is the discord which necessarily results from the dangerous doctrines and the illegal acts of the adminis tration. If they sincerely desire the suppres sion of the rebellion, let them reunite the bonds which they have ruptured, let them reinaugu rate the reign of concord by withdrawing their illegal proclamations, by repealing their un constitutional laws, by respecting the rights of the States, and ceasing to assail the liberties of the people. Suppose even we are wrong in these views, they are those of millions of 'voters, they are the declared sentiments of sov ereign States, they are entitled to considera tion and respect; adopt them, and the country will be saved; defy them, and the present con flict will be indefinitely procrastinated. Let calm consideration take the place of partisan passion. We are all brethren by whatever name we are called, and we have like interests in our common country. Let us be right and do right, and we may be confident against the world in arms. Undoubtedly peace is to be desired, but to obtain peace war must be vigorously prose cuted, and every constitutional means•of coer cion used against those who are, at once, our enemies and our brothers. No thought mint be, for a moment, entertained of consenting to a separation, for to restore and preserve the Union, is a sacred duty, which we ewe not only to ourselves, but to the memory of our fathers, and the rights of our children. Let us continue to refute, by our acts, as we have hitherto done, always and everywhere, the base and baseless slander, that the Democracy IS in any way or degree tainted with disloyalty.— We have the power—let us use it. Let us all unite, party distinctions forgotten in devotion to legitimate government, as organized, de fined and limited by the Constitution, and we cannot fail. Our troops, no mercenary hordes of semi-barbarians driven to the ranks by de spotic power, but citizen soldiers, inspired by patriotism, to defend with their lives, the Union and liberty of the country—a body of inde pendent and intelligent freemen, such as was never before assembled under a common ban ner, have exhibited devotion, solemn and sac rificial. Never, in the annals of war, has shone more resplendent glory the heroic gallantry of citizens, become soldiers, only to save their country. Fortitude, patience, constancy, the highest and rarest military virtues, ennobled and sustained the prolonged and agonized offering of their mortal and immortal natures, which they laid on the altar of their country. Their sublime self-sacrifice demands that country's gratitude. Notwithstanding all the neglect and incompetency by which they have been weakened and obstructed, they have steadily progressed; and, at this moment, hold the most important strategic positions. Let the government strengthen and assure them, by wilting the North .on the basis of the Con stitution, and they will speedily vindicate the sacred cause which has called them to the field. The high and sacred mission of the Demo cratic party, united with the true men of all parties, is to make peace with the South—to restore the ascendency of the Constitution, everywhere—to assure the equality of the States, and to vindicate the rights of man. You must never forget that Pennsylvania was first among the States that formed and ratified the Constitution of the Union, and has always been its inflexible defender against all opponents and every attack. You will not sully the emblazoned pages in which the world reads of your patriots, and reverences their patriotism, but you will cherish these sacred memories, and emulate these heroes of peace and war—you will vindicate your birthright by proving that you are worthy of it. Product of patriotic effort, fruit of toils and dangers, reward of wisdom and valor, pur chased by suffering and blood, crown. of the revolutionary contest, is the Constitution of the United States. Its construction was a labor of love ; let it be again and perpetually renovated by the political affection of this great national family. It formed the Union and is its sole security. The Union, blessed mother of all her children ; bountiful source of the greatness and glory of the Republic; shield of security ; assurance of prosperity; concentrated wisdom of its immor tal authors;, proof of their patriotism; lesson for all nations and ages; the happy expedient by which freedom of domestic government is connected with power in foreign affair's, each ample; neither impaired ; consoling evidence that there is in the human soul a divinely in spired spirit of concord stronger than arms, capable of political...combinations for erecting a government more powerful than despotism ; commended to our affections by the tenderest recollections of the past; mingled with our dearest hopes for the future ; the sacred legacy of our ancestors, which we are bound, in faith and honor, to transmit unimpaired to our pos terity; hope of the whole world; light of lib erty, committed to our care, that its rays, streaming across oceans and continents, may beam the radiant glory of equality ; the sun in the political firmament, warming, vivifying and fructifying the seed of freedom everywhere, so that all people may find final repose under the protecting branches of the tree of liberty. Not for ourselves alone, but for our race— not for the present only, but for all time, the great question is now to be solved of the pos sibility of sustaining government by moral means—of the fitness of man for freedom.- 1 .Dissolve the Union, and Democratic liberty is dead—discord rules until despotism succeeds. God preserve our beloved country from either evil—from the cruel arms of conflicting pew ere, strong in hatred, but too feeble for effect ive defence, or from the cold silence of subjec.
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